Computers and Technology

Sending personal emails, a bit of online shopping, checking out your friend's holiday snaps on Facebook: that's workplace cyberloafing. Psychopaths and narcissists are more prone to this type of behaviour, according to a study.

Australia should double its pace of artificial intelligence and robotics automation to reap a $2.2 trillion opportunity by 2030, while also urgently preparing to support more than 3 million workers whose jobs may be at risk, according to a new report.

Hackers post a fresh cache of stolen HBO files online, including what appear to be Game of Thrones scripts, and demand the network pay a ransom of several million dollars to prevent further such releases.

When a battery runs low it usually needs to be manually recharged, but new approaches could help them last indefinitely. Self-sustaining "energy neutral" batteries are being used to track animals — and they could end up in smartphones, too.